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I admire OP's decision to resign. But, to be fair, cataloguing citizens to facilitate genocide is one of IBM's core competencies[1]. [1] - https://en.m.wikiped

I admire OP's decision to resign. But, to be fair, cataloguing citizens to facilitate genocide is one of IBM's core competencies[1]. [1] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

twblalock 10y ago
If you were really interested in being fair, you would also point out that nobody who worked at IBM during the Holocaust still works there today. To suggest that the IBM of today is the same as the IBM of that time is absurd, and constitutes an odd kind of essentialism whereby the character of a corporation never changes even though every single person who worked there has been replaced. It ascribes motive, personality, and an unchanging nature to a corporation rather than to the people who run it.
- ariendj 10y ago
  I don't think hacker news readers have to be told that the people that worked at IBM up to 1945 do not work there anymore.
  - meira 10y ago
    Neither that their bad decisions would gone away after they left the company.
shawn-butler 10y ago
Linked article is absurd histrionics. Your argumentum ad antiquitatem serves no purpose. Have to admire her attempt at getting some self-exposure seeing as she is unemployed with no prospects, I suppose. Did we learn absolutely nothing from the Mozilla-Eich fiasco?